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1048 THEODORUS. THEODOIRtS.
wider the general title of'EKKXcLqararIKi'lTreopta, ComLubfis, pp. 11, 12, 19, 33, ed. Paris, 1664; BanfHistoria Ecclesiastica, and referred to as consti- durius, vol. i. p. iii. pp. 88, 89, 93, 102, ed. Paris,
tuting one work. They are, in fact, two consecutive 1711). If these references are to one and the
works on one subject. 1.'EIcRXoy e'lc Trcv EKKtA- same writer, and that writer the subject of this
1La'riyCKwV a'0ropLv, Selecta ex ilistoriis Ecclesias- article, as critics generally seem to admit, he must
ticis, a compendium of Church history from the have written on other subjects than ecclesiastical
time of Constantine the Great, in two books, com- history, and have lived at a considerably later
piled chiefly from Sozomen, with additions from period than is generally supposed. The extracts
Socrates and Theodoret. It is probable that Theo- chiefly or wholly relate to the statues with which
dore intended that this compendium should corm- Constantinople was adorned; and one of them
prehend the whole period included in the histories (p. 11, Combefis, p. 88, Bandurius) contains a cufrom which he made his extracts: but if so, the rious incident in the personal history of the writer
work was not completed; for it breaks off at the which shows him to have lived in the reign of the
death of Constantius II. From its incomplete emperor Philippicus (A. D. 711-713), nearly tvo
state it was probably the latter of Theodore's two centuries after the reign of Justin I., in which
works in the order of composition, and was appa- Theodorus is usually placed. Another extract norently designed as an introduction to the other. tices statues of the daughter and niece of the em2.'EKK1ClXcraaorKtc ioTopta, Historia Ecclesiastica. press Sophia, wife of Justin II., which also implies
An original work on ecclesiastical history, also in the writer to have lived long after the time of
two books, comprehending the period from the Justin I. Though there seems no decisive reason
reign of Theodosius the younger, where Socrates, for identifying the writer on the statues with the
Sozomen, and Theodoret end to the reign of ecclesiastical historian, yet the name and title
Justin I., perhaps of Justinian I. From the cir- render their identity not improbable: and it may
cumstance of this work commencing from the be observed that Damascenus, the earliest writer
point where the earlier ecclesiastical histories who has mentioned Theodore, belongs to a period
cease, it is inferred that the compendium just somewhat later than the reign of Philippicus
mentioned was intended to come down to the same [DAMASCENUS]. (Vales. Praefatio ad Tscodsopoint, and consequently that it was never com- return, ic.; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 518, vol. i.
pleted. Its incompleteness occasioned a void of p. 503; Dupin, NAouvelle Biblioth. des Auteurs
seventy years to be left between the close of one, Eccles. vol. iv. (6me siecle) p. 92, 2d ed. Paris,
and the commencement of the other of Theodore's 1698; Ceillier, Auteurs Sacres, vol. xvi. p. 187,
works. The compendium is extant in MS., in the &c.; Fabric. Biblioth. Graec. vol. vii. pp. 368, 435,
library of St. Mark at Venice, though the MS. &c., vol. x. p. 398; Schoell, Hist. de la Litterathure
is mutilated at the beginning. A copy (whether Grecque Profane, vol. vii. p. 26, 2d ed. Paris,
transcribed from the Venetian MS. is not known) 1825.)
was in the possession of Allatius, who intended to 9. Of ANCYRA. Fabricius in two places (Bibl.
publish it, but who never fulfilled his intention; Greaec. vol. viii. p. 696, x. p. 359) mentions a Theonor has it ever been published. Allatius sent a dore of Ancyra, as being cited in the Catenae of the
transcript of some portions to Valesius, who em- Fathers on the Acts of the Apostles and the Catholic
ployed it in correcting the text of his edition of Epistles: but the similarity of the names leads us
the original authors. Theodore's own history is to suspect that the author cited is Theodotus, who
lost, except some extracts &arb cpwvys NLtKcdpovpo was bishop of Ancyra in the first half of the fifth
KahAiorGqov TroO oavyOrovAov, ex ore Nicephori century. The names Theodotus and Theodorus
Callisti Xanthopuli. As Nicephorus never in his are in MSS. frequently confounded (comp. Fabric.
own Ecclesiastical History quotes Theodore, except Bibl. Griaec. vol. x. p. 512). Dr. J. A. Cramer, in the
for statements contained in these extracts, it is Catena in Acta SS. Apostolorum, edited under his
fairly inferred by Valesius that the original was not care (8vo. Oxford, 1838), has substituted (pp. 33,
in his hands; and that the extracts were made by 227, 427, 438) the name of Theodotus where the
some one before his time, and were all the remains MSS. have that of " Theodore of Ancyra," or
of Theodore's work then extant, at least all that " Theodore the Monk," or "Theodore the Monk
he had access to. These extracts ('EKco'yaf, Ex- and Presbyter."
cerpta) were first published by Robert Stephens, 10. Of ANTIDA or ANDIDA or more correctly
with Eusebius and the other Greek ecclesiastical of SANDIDA, a bishopric of the province of Paemhistorians, fol. Paris, 1544; and again, with the phylia Secunda, of which Perga was the ecclesiLatin version of Christopherson, fol. Geneva, astical metropolis (comp. Le Quien, Oriens Christian.
1612: but the best edition is that of Henri Valois, vol. i. col. 1013, 1030). Allatius in several of his
or Valesius; who published them with the ecclesias- works has cited some passages from an Expositio
tical histories of Theodoret, Evagrius, and Philostor- JMissae by "Theodorus Anltidorum (s. Andidoruin)
gius, fol. Paris, 1673, reprinted under the care of Episcopus:" but gives us no clue to the age of the
Reading, fol. Cambridge, 1720, and again at Turin, writer except in one place, and there (J. H. Hot1748. Valesius published not only the Excerpta tinerusfraudis, d c. convictts, p. 12, 8vo. Rom.
of Nicephorus, but some other fragments of Theo- 1661) we only learn that Theodore was later than
dore. Combefis, in his Originumz Rerumque CPo- Photius, who lived in the ninth century. The
litanaerunn Al'anipulus, and Bandurius in his Isa- citations of Allatius are enumerated by Fabricius
periunz Orientale, have given an anonymous work (Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 372).
Ilapao'rdaetrs oV'roTmOL XPOIscafI, Breves DenLon- 11. Of ANTIOCH (1-6). There were several pastrationes s. Enarrationes Chronouraphlicae, in which triarchs of Antioch of the name of Theodore. An
are some citations from a Oedobwpos, Theodorus, or Arian patriarch in the reign of the emperor Valens
~eodwpos'AVa'Yci6 —rl-s,' Theodorus Lector, or is called Dorotheus by Sozomen (H. E. vi. 37),
eo'awpos Xpovoeyptis poc &vappjcwdes arayvcoovuaarv, but Theodorus by Philostorgius (II. E. ix. 14), who
Theodores Chronographus Lectiosnibus clartus (comp. identifies him with Theodore of Heracleia (No. 42).